Web Development Job Trends in England

Web Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Web Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 150 196
Rank change year-on-year +129 +46 +4
Permanent jobs citing Web Development 4,234 918 794
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.01% 1.91% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.87% 2.10% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 183 397 691
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,372 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £60,250 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,462 £82,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% -1.87% -2.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Web Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Web Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Web Development job vacancy trend in England

Web Development
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Development

Web Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Development in England

Web Development
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +87 1,666 £40,000 - 78
North West +85 1,503 £35,000 +3.70% 30
Midlands +99 1,083 £35,000 - 46
West Midlands +108 931 £46,020 -0.50% 17
South East +116 613 £55,000 +4.76% 112
London +170 432 £55,000 -8.33% 63
East of England +70 381 £50,000 +11.11% 58
East Midlands +33 164 £35,000 - 29
Yorkshire +38 159 £42,000 -30.00% 35
South West -25 41 £42,500 -26.09% 43
North East -13 4 £48,686 -2.63% 14
Web Development
UK

Web Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 36 (0.85%) WordPress
2 17 (0.40%) CMS
3 7 (0.17%) Umbraco
4 5 (0.12%) nginx
5 3 (0.071%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.071%) IIS
6 2 (0.047%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.047%) Confluence
6 2 (0.047%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.024%) Apache
7 1 (0.024%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.047%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.024%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.024%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.26%) Shopify
2 1 (0.024%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.024%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4,023 (95.02%) Cloud Computing
2 65 (1.54%) AWS
3 62 (1.46%) Azure
4 47 (1.11%) GitHub
5 14 (0.33%) GCP
6 11 (0.26%) Figma
7 10 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (0.21%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (0.21%) Power Platform
8 9 (0.21%) SaaS
9 8 (0.19%) Power Automate
10 6 (0.14%) Entra ID
10 6 (0.14%) Google Analytics
11 4 (0.094%) Serverless
12 3 (0.071%) Firebase
12 3 (0.071%) Sentry
13 2 (0.047%) Algolia
13 2 (0.047%) Azure Functions
13 2 (0.047%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (0.047%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4,033 (95.25%) Internet
2 3 (0.071%) DNS
2 3 (0.071%) VPN
3 2 (0.047%) HTTP
3 2 (0.047%) Intranet
4 1 (0.024%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (0.61%) MySQL
2 25 (0.59%) SQL Server
3 20 (0.47%) Big Data
4 14 (0.33%) NoSQL
5 12 (0.28%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.094%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.047%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.047%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.047%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.047%) Power BI
9 1 (0.024%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.024%) Redis
9 1 (0.024%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (1.23%) Git
2 12 (0.28%) JIRA
3 4 (0.094%) GitLab
4 3 (0.071%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.071%) Storybook
5 2 (0.047%) webpack
6 1 (0.024%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.024%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.024%) JUnit
6 1 (0.024%) Maven
6 1 (0.024%) Moq
6 1 (0.024%) MSTest
6 1 (0.024%) NSubstitute
6 1 (0.024%) NUnit
6 1 (0.024%) Selenium
6 1 (0.024%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.024%) Vite
General
1 4,079 (96.34%) Social Skills
2 4,032 (95.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,024 (95.04%) Banking
4 52 (1.23%) Marketing
5 29 (0.68%) Multimedia
6 13 (0.31%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (0.26%) Retail
8 9 (0.21%) Finance
8 9 (0.21%) Public Sector
9 7 (0.17%) Law
9 7 (0.17%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.12%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.071%) Legal
13 2 (0.047%) Games
14 1 (0.024%) Back Office
14 1 (0.024%) Front Office
14 1 (0.024%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.024%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.024%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3,125 (73.81%) Lecturer
2 128 (3.02%) Developer
3 65 (1.54%) Web Developer
4 36 (0.85%) Senior
5 34 (0.80%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (0.80%) Senior Developer
6 29 (0.68%) Trainee
7 25 (0.59%) Administrator
7 25 (0.59%) Trainee Administrator
7 25 (0.59%) Web Administrator
8 19 (0.45%) Lead
9 17 (0.40%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (0.38%) Full-Stack Web Developer
10 16 (0.38%) Senior Web Developer
11 14 (0.33%) C# Developer
12 10 (0.24%) .NET Developer
12 10 (0.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 9 (0.21%) PHP Developer
14 7 (0.17%) .NET Web Developer
14 7 (0.17%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (2.08%) HTML
2 80 (1.89%) CSS
3 51 (1.20%) React
4 44 (1.04%) .NET
5 24 (0.57%) AngularJS
6 17 (0.40%) ASP.NET
7 14 (0.33%) Node.js
7 14 (0.33%) REST
7 14 (0.33%) Web Services
8 11 (0.26%) .NET Core
8 11 (0.26%) RESTful
9 9 (0.21%) .NET Framework
10 8 (0.19%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (0.19%) HTML5
10 8 (0.19%) Vue
11 7 (0.17%) Django
11 7 (0.17%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (0.14%) CSS3
12 6 (0.14%) LangChain
12 6 (0.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4,023 (95.02%) IoT
2 15 (0.35%) Management Information System
2 15 (0.35%) Product Ownership
3 11 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (0.21%) Mobile App
5 5 (0.12%) e-Learning
5 5 (0.12%) Onboarding
6 4 (0.094%) Social Media
7 3 (0.071%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.071%) W3C
8 2 (0.047%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.047%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.047%) Derivative
9 1 (0.024%) CMDB
9 1 (0.024%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.024%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.024%) Life Science
9 1 (0.024%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.024%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.024%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.071%) Android
1 3 (0.071%) Apple iOS
1 3 (0.071%) Windows
2 2 (0.047%) Linux
3 1 (0.024%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,042 (95.47%) User Experience
2 4,033 (95.25%) Cybersecurity
3 4,022 (94.99%) AI
4 4,015 (94.83%) Machine Learning
5 51 (1.20%) Full-Stack Development
6 48 (1.13%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (1.11%) Agile
8 36 (0.85%) Digital Marketing
9 33 (0.78%) CI/CD
10 28 (0.66%) Analytics
11 26 (0.61%) Front End Development
11 26 (0.61%) Software Engineering
12 25 (0.59%) Business Analysis
13 24 (0.57%) Mentoring
14 23 (0.54%) DevOps
15 22 (0.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (0.45%) Clean Code
17 18 (0.43%) Computer Science
18 16 (0.38%) E-Commerce
19 15 (0.35%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 102 (2.41%) JavaScript
2 61 (1.44%) Python
3 38 (0.90%) C#
4 35 (0.83%) SQL
5 30 (0.71%) PHP
6 25 (0.59%) R
7 24 (0.57%) TypeScript
8 16 (0.38%) Java
9 2 (0.047%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.047%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.047%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.024%) C++
10 1 (0.024%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.024%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4,056 (95.80%) Degree
2 4,027 (95.11%) Master's Degree
3 4,004 (94.57%) PhD
4 4,003 (94.54%) Postgraduate
5 30 (0.71%) Azure Certification
5 30 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 29 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 20 (0.47%) HND
8 14 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (0.24%) SC Cleared
9 10 (0.24%) Security Cleared
10 7 (0.17%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.024%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.024%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (0.64%) Accessibility
2 12 (0.28%) QA
3 7 (0.17%) WCAG
4 5 (0.12%) GDPR
5 1 (0.024%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (0.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.024%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (0.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.094%) Terraform
3 1 (0.024%) Argo
3 1 (0.024%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (1.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (0.33%) Google
3 8 (0.19%) Adobe
4 4 (0.094%) HubSpot
5 3 (0.071%) Oracle
6 2 (0.047%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.047%) SendGrid
6 2 (0.047%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.024%) Ahrefs
7 1 (0.024%) Foundry
7 1 (0.024%) Hootsuite
7 1 (0.024%) Marketo
7 1 (0.024%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.024%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.024%) Screaming Frog